Carmine Vittoria received his Ph.D. in applied quantum physics from Yale University in 1970. He is currently a professor at Northeastern University, where he has established a world-class research laboratory in the development of new microwave films deposited at the atomic scale. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and IEEE. In addition to his distinguished scientific career, he is the author of the World War II historical fiction trilogy Hidden in Plain Sight, A Tale of Two Enclaves, and A Silk Road Odyssey, inspired by true but little-known stories from the war.